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Variation in folate pathway genes and distal colorectal adenoma risk: a sigmoidoscopy-based case-control study.
Cancer causes & control : CCC - 1 Apr 2011
Levine A Joan, Lee Won, Figueiredo Jane C, Conti David V, Vandenberg David J, Davis Brian D, Edlund Christopher K, Henning Susanne M, Heber David, Stern Mariana C, Haile Robert W
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BACKGROUND: Folate-associated one-carbon metabolism (FOCM) is an important pathway in colorectal neoplasia risk but data on genetic variation in this pathway are largely limited to studies of single SNPs in selected genes. METHODS: We used a comprehensive tagSNP approach to study the association...
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